Scolytus orientalis Eggers, 1910

Beaver, Roger A., Ghahari, Hassan & Sanguansub, Sunisa, 2016, An annotated checklist of Platypodinae and Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4098 (3), pp. 401-441 : 420

Scolytus orientalis Eggers, 1910

Distribution in Iran. Northern provinces ( Modarres Awal 1997).

General distribution. Southeastern Europe, Southern Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan. Taxonomy. This species has usually been considered a variety ( Michalski 1973) or subspecies ( Pfeffer 1995) of Scolytus multistriatus , but is listed a separate species by Stark (1952) and Knížek (2011).

Biology. It breeds in species of Ulmus and Zelkova (Ulmaceae) ( Stark 1952; Pfeffer 1995). Recorded in Iran from Ulmus pumila (Ulmaceae) ( Modarres Awal 1997). The biology is almost uninvestigated, but likely to be very similar to S. multistriatus .

Comments. Macromesus amphiretus Walker, 1848 ( Hymenoptera : Pteromalidae ) is a parasitoid of S. orientalis in Iran ( Abd-Rabou et al. 2005).